Staff Site Reliability Engineer
NinjaTrader is a futures trading provider offering integrated desktop, web, and mobile trading platforms, futures brokerage services, single stock futures, market data, charting, simulation, education, and support. It serves retail, professional, new, and experienced active traders.
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About NinjaTrader
NinjaTrader provides futures brokerage and proprietary trading-platform services through NinjaTrader Group, LLC and its affiliates. Its offerings include access to global futures markets, single stock futures, desktop, web, and mobile trading platforms, charting and analysis tools, market data, simulated trading, risk-management features, customization through a C# development framework, education, livestreams, and customer support. NinjaTrader Clearing, LLC is a CFTC-registered futures commission merchant and NFA member serving retail and professional traders.
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About the Role
Lead the SRE function for trading systems and set technical direction across reliability initiatives. Troubleshoot production issues, participate in on-call operations, automate deployments and incident response, establish monitoring and service objectives, manage infrastructure with Terraform, and apply security and compliance practices across deployments.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles
- Expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration
- Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions or equivalent CI/CD tools
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go
- Experience with Ansible, Terraform, or Helm
- Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure
- In-depth knowledge of cloud networking, security, and identity management
- Knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar monitoring and observability tools
- Strong collaboration, communication, and leadership skills
- Ability to influence technical decisions and mentor junior engineers
- Trading industry experience
- Contributions to open-source projects
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction for reliability initiatives and mentor engineers
- Analyze, troubleshoot, and remediate production issues
- Participate in the weekly 12x7 on-call rotation and weekend deployments
- Perform root cause analysis and remediate production incidents
- Build tools to automate repetitive tasks, deployments, and incident responses
- Design monitoring and alerting systems and track SLIs and SLOs
- Use Infrastructure as Code to provision, scale, and manage platforms
- Collaborate with Product Engineering, Operations, and cross-functional teams
- Implement security and compliance practices including SOC 2 and PCI DSS
Benefits
- 401k plan with up to a 3.5% company match
- 23 days of annual paid time off
- Seven paid holidays
- 20 additional flex remote days annually
- Five company-wide office-optional weeks tied to major holidays
- One service day annually
- Paid parental bonding leave
- Health, vision, and dental coverage
- Life and disability insurance fully covered by NinjaTrader